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For a bunch obsessed with not humiliating Muslims, the Bash Bush crowd sure went out of it's way, by teaming up with America First Republicans, to give the Abu Ghraib treatment to one of the more civilized places in the Middle East . 

The website, MEMRI, has excerpts from a great Al Jazeera interview, with Dr. Wafa Sultan, an Arab-American psychiatrist.  Dr. Sultan doesn't believe we are in a war of nations or religions. She believes, "we are in a clash between civilization and backwardness…between barbarity and rationality."

Tom Friedman of the NY Times calls Dubai a "A bridge of decency that leads away from the failing civilization described by Dr. Sulitan"  He quoted an Arab businessman who said, "you could not have a better friend and more of a symbol of globalization and openness."   Friedman wrote, "Unfortunately we just told Dubai to go to hell."   

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Okay, it's not a conspiracy.  It's dubm.   But I thought it was amusing.

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This cartoon was  inspired by a Peggy Noonan column in the Wall Street Journal.  She is annoyed by airport security and its insistence on strip searching grandmas to prove it doesn't do profiling.  Are we safer because we make everyone in line miserable while TSA scans babushka bombers?

Here we have a moderate Islamic country that accepts civilized western values, like quarterly earnings expectations.  It just happens to be replacing a company from a country full of mad mullahs, namely Britain.  Tony  Blair has proved he's tough on terror but England supports some of the most radical Islamo-whatever-you-like-to-call-them I've ever heard of.  So I'm beginning to think why not United Arab Emirates. UAE sounds like a big American union and probably isn't any more dangerous.

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A British company, P&O, manages 6 major U.S. ports.  There are plenty of terrorists in England.  After all, the London subway bombing was an inside job. 

But don't worry.  The Brits are out.  P&O is being taken over by Dubai Ports World, a company owned by United Arab Emirates, home of 9/11 attackers.

Congress is threatening to kill the deal.  Bush has promised to defend the Arab company with his first veto in 6 years.  Homeland Security is rescuing cats stranded by Katrina.